THE GROUPS AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION

Soloist
The chance for you to listen to the boha, the bagpipe from the Landes, in its purest expression and also at its most exacting.
Yan Cozian is well-known as a specialist of the bagpipe from the Landes, Over the years his passion for this instrument has led him to become a musician, a researcher, a person who hands down the traditions.

International meetings of Maître Sonneurs of Saint Chartier, inter-Celtic festival of Lorient, Cassel with bagpipes, the Meeting of bagpipes in L`iIe de France, the festival of Pipasso, and various festivals in Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Slovakia…

PassairesSwing music to make Gascony move.
Gascony swing music, dynamic and current which seems to float on the stage when the musicians of PassAires let resound scottishs, mazurkas, rondos and polkas.

Boha banda
A collective of bohaires
As soon as the bohas and the bagpipes from the landes get together they ring out the repertory of the music from the Landes of Gascony. Polyphony and dance come together in a sharing and a harmony of never-ending fun.

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"Carnet des bal en Gascogne " is a collection of 95 musical sheets/scores accompanied by a CD, where all the melodies/tunes are played by the boha. The author's choice has been made by a repertory of ballroom dances, usually played or sung in Gascony and especially by the bohaires.
You will find Scottish music, mazurkas, Circassian circles and other waltzes, but also other dances more specific to Gascony, like the rondeau and the congo.
In order to simplify your discovery and use of this book, all the tunes have been classified by five different criteria : types of dance - popularity- technical difficulty (for a bohaire) - musical style- tunes in the public domain or composition.
The aim of a soundtrack is to offer an intelligible interpretation by easily bringing out the tune while avoiding music that is flat and without character.

Boha! At the heart of the Landes.
An incredible history of the bagpipe from the Landes.

Box set : 2 DVDs and a booklet.
Discover or rediscover the boha, the bagpipe of the Landes of Gascony.
The boha, the bagpipe of the Landes of Gascony, is an instrument of the emblematic music and culture and heritage of the Landes.
It is true that it does not resemble the other bagpipes found in other regions in France. It is so original that when it came to give it a name in French, the ethnomusicologists chose the name of our area : «landaise » !
Its history, especially the revival of it being played, is rich, even though it has never been collected about. Despite the large scope of this project, in the first instance they decided to confine the revival to the Landes.
DVD1 The documentary
This first work is aimed at a wide range people interested in Gascony, its culture, its heritage, its music and its language - which also covers Occitan. It is subtitled in Gascon, English and Spanish.
DVD2 : Treatise/convention of the bagpipe of the Landes.
An innovative approach.
An audiovisual teaching method.
For further details search under heading/teaching
Booklet : 36 pages quadri
Completes/supplements the video documentary with texts and photos.

Yan Cozian is a professor at the Conservatoire des Landes (Academy of Music), the transmission of the practice of the bagpipes of Gascony is his work.
His method by its progressivity allows:
- To progress to a musician who has a bagpipe no teacher.
- To a high of resume of teaching passages seen being.
- To a musician confirmed to work with the fingerings complex, rhythmic, ornaments and phrases of dances. More details Tutor of boha

Paraulas e musicas.
There are 220 songs and traditional music collected in the Landes from 1960 to the present day.
This work is of interest to traditional musicians from Gascony and elsewhere. It is also for everyone who loves the culture and language of Gascony.
It was of paramount importance for the author to give everyone the possibility to access the richness of our musical heritage, and to transmit it to our future generations. This has been achieved through this book, which brings together more than 200 melodies, songs or dances that had not previously been written down at the beginning of the 20th century by Felix Arnaudin.
This work is of interest to traditional musicians from Gascony and elsewhere. It is also for everyone who loves the culture and language of Gascony.

For the PassAires's first album the musicians decided to draw on their repertory for this record -Paraulas e musicas. They have created musical orchestrations and then arranged them to make the melodies, mainly collected in the 1970s to the 1990s, music that is current and dynamic, yet still deep traditional and acoustic.

An audiovisual method of learning.
An innovative approach
The aim of this DVD is to simplify learning by explaining informatively with the help of short films/clips
Yan, the boha teacher relies on his professional experience to create this original and innovative method.

The second album of the group PassAires is eponymously titled de las hemnas, the women. You can hear the language of Gascony porte dancing, subtle rondeaux, swinging circles and languorous mazurkas.
The album is made up of traditional songs and other compositions.
Yan Cozian (bagpipe, clarin, vocals), Mathieu Dufau (flute, tambourine, vocals), Laurent Geoffroy (diatonic accordion), Simon Guillaumin (hurdy-gurdy, vocals) and Eric Oberlé (drums, voix).

For Yan Cozian this album is the occasion to let you hear the boys, the bagpipe from the Landes, in its purest expression, playing solo.
You will discover his own playing style, which he has drawn on from the techniques of the olden days, and which he has learned to construct over the years.
He wanted to let you share his journey through the melodies of Gascony of yesteryear and today. Waltzes, rondeaux and scottishs, full of zest and drive, alternate with wedding marches and laments.

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